JOBS Act, Emerging Growth Companies, Securities Regulation

SEC Staff Expands Draft Registration Statement Accommodations

Goodwin on 3/12/2025

On March 3, 2025, the staff of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (the “SEC”) Division of Corporation Finance (the “SEC staff”) announced that, effective immediately, it is enhancing the accommodations available to...more

SEC Announces Expansion of Availability of Confidential Submissions for Issuers

Dechert LLP on 3/7/2025

The SEC announced the expansion of the availability of confidential submission of draft registration statements for various new registrations, including initial registration of securities on Form 10; initial registration of...more

Financial Statement Requirements in US Securities Offerings: What You Need to Know - 2025 Edition

Latham & Watkins LLP on 1/15/2025

The most frequently asked question at all-hands meetings for a securities offering is “What financial statements will be needed?” The question seems simple enough. But the answer is rarely straightforward. This User’s...more

The Latham FPI Guide: Accessing the US Capital Markets From Outside the United States - 2023 Edition

Latham & Watkins LLP on 9/12/2023

Fabry-Pérot Interferometer, SA is a highly successful non-US company known to the world as FPI. FPI is considering doing a debt or equity offering in the United States. What are the key legal issues it, and its underwriters...more

Financial Statement Requirements in US Securities Offerings: What Non-US Issuers Need to Know - 2022 Edition

Latham & Watkins LLP on 1/3/2022

The most frequently asked question at all-hands meetings for a securities offering is “What financial statements will be needed?” The question seems simple enough. But the answer is rarely straightforward. This User’s Guide...more

The Latham FPI Guide: Accessing the US Capital Markets From Outside the United States - 2021 Edition

Latham & Watkins LLP on 9/10/2021

Fabry-Pérot Interferometer, SA is a highly successful non-US company known to the world as FPI. FPI is considering doing a debt or equity offering in the United States. What are the key legal issues it, and its underwriters...more

Testing the Waters for All – New Rule 163B Expands TTW to All Issuers: First Analysis

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives on 11/20/2019

In this Lexis Practice Advisor Practice Note, we discuss new Rule 163B adopted by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). On September 26, 2019, the SEC extended the ability to test the waters to all issuers by...more

Legal Update: Testing the Waters for All – New Rule 163B Expands TTW to All Issuers

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives on 9/30/2019

On September 26, 2019, the US Securities and Exchange Commission extended the ability to test the waters to all issuers by adopting the highly anticipated new Rule 163B under the Securities Act of 1933 (the Securities Act)....more

SEC Proposes to Expand “Test-the-Waters” Communications to all Issuers

Stinson - Corporate & Securities Law Blog on 2/20/2019

The SEC has proposed new rules that would permit all issuers to solicit investor views about potential offerings to be taken into account at an earlier stage in the process than is the case today....more

SEC Proposes to Expand “Test-the-Waters” Modernization Reform to All Issuers

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives on 2/20/2019

The Securities and Exchange Commission took the long-awaited step of proposing rules for comment that would extend the ability to test the waters beyond emerging growth companies, or EGCs. ...more

SEC Proposes to Expand "Test the Waters" to All Issuers

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP on 2/20/2019

Background On Feb. 19, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) voted to propose a rule and related rule amendments under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the Securities Act)...more

FAST Act Brings Holiday Cheer to Issuers

Baker Donelson on 12/29/2015

"Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act," also known as the FAST Act, was signed by President Obama on December 4, 2015. Although primarily aimed at authorizing spending on highway and transit projects, the FAST Act...more

The FAST Act: Buried Transportation Bill Amendments Ease Private Resale Restrictions and Modify the JOBS Act

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 12/21/2015

On Dec. 4, 2015, President Obama signed into law the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (the “FAST Act”). As the name implies, the FAST Act is primarily concerned with transportation and infrastructure spending, but...more

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